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单词 micturient
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micturientadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin micturient-, micturīre.
Etymology: < classical Latin micturient-, present participial stem of micturīre to (wish to) urinate (attested twice in Juvenal) < mict- (see miction n.) + -urīre (see -urient suffix).
Obsolete. rare.
Wishing to urinate.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [adjective] > urination
micturient1654
retromingent1692
mingent1705
urinablec1900
widdling1963
piddling1968
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xxii. 274 Which..gave Sancho to perceive his condition very micturient, and cacaturient.
1887 G. Meredith Let. 22 Sept. (1970) II. 890 O what a micturient, cacaturient crew has issued of the lens of the Sun of the mind on the lower facts of life!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

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micturient
Occurring first in a few direct adoptions from Latin, as parturient (1592), †micturient (1654), esurient (a1672), and hence occasionally added to Latin stems to form adjectives with the meaning ‘desiring, characterized by a desire, (to do something)’, as in †novaturient (1679), nupturient, † vomiturient (1666).
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1878 Eagle (St. John's Coll., Cambr.) X. 81 The vapid concourse of dangling men and nupturient maids.
extracted from -urientsuffix
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adj.1654
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